Klein v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.2d 1104 · 1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2009
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Davis v. Alaska · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & WareHouse Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The short answer to this contention is that such letter obviously does not contain a contract to do anything for the nonperformance of which the action was brought. The court below was eminently right in concluding that since resort to oral testimony was compelled to make complete the showing of any legal liability incurred by the defendant arising out of such letter, the [limitation period for actions founded on unwritten contracts] was applicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matherly v. Hanson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.